Hard Disk Sentinel Linux Edition (FREE)

By using Hard Disk Sentinel Linux console edition, it is possible to examine the temperature and health information (and more) of IDE, S-ATA (SATA II also), SCSI and USB hard disks connected to motherboard or external controller cards. The user must be root to use this software or start it with sudo.

To simplify starting Hard Disk Sentinel Linux Edition, it is possible to use one of the Linux Desktop Installers for the actual Linux distribution which allows starting directly from the desktop without the need of starting manually from a console. Thanks for Marc Sayer for these packages!

Please send saved XML or TXT reports, questions or ideas to info@hdsentinel.com to help improving this tool.

License

Hard Disk Sentinel Linux edition is FREE. You can freely distribute and use it to analyse hard disk status. However, if you like this tool and would like to keep it updated, please support further development by registering the Windows version of the software.

Usage of Hard Disk Sentinel Linux version

After downloading the file below, please follow these steps to use it:

double click to open and decompress it to any folder

open a terminal window and navigate to the folder

change file permissions to make it executable by using chmod 755 HDSentinel

launch it by entering sudo ./HDSentinel [options]sudo is not required if you logged in as "root".

Examples

Select a balanced level between silence and performance on drive 0: hdsentinel -setaam 0 C0
Note: some disks do not support balanced settings and they may select the most silent (80) or high
performance (FE) setting instead.
Please start hsentinel without parameters to see drive assignments (eg. /dev/sda) to drive indexes.

Due to the high amount of requests, it is possible to create minimal output which can be easily parsed and processed for further use.
Some examples are:

Note that the spaces in hard disk model ID and serial number are replaced with underscore (_).

If you have any ideas, thoughts about the automatic processing of output or if you have complete
script(s) you want to share with other users, please send a mail
and it will be published on this page with the name and credits of the sender of the script.

Updates

0.17

30/8/2017

added detection of industrial micro SD cards under Linux. Detect status immediately if the detection method of the micro SD card previously configured under the Windows - or if -autosd command line parameter specified to detect and save the detection method and use in all sub-sequent detections under Windows or Linux.
Note: with Raspberry PI, it is not possible to detect internal memory card status, just status of card in external USB memory card reader.